January 05, 2011

Connecting The Dots

The management of projects involves many moving parts. Here's an overview of those parts and their connections.

These involve:

Risk - management of risk is how "adults" manage projects.

Cost - the cost spreads for each "lump of work" defines how resources are allocated, how these costs consumed, and how these costs must be funded by the project's sponsor.

Statement of Work - this is where the project starts. The SOW states what DONE looks like in terms meaningful to the buyer.

Technical Performance Measure - measures of effectiveness and measures of performance for the deliverables.

Work Breakdown Structure - a hierarchical decomposition of a product and the process that build that product.

IMP/IMS - the Integrated Master Plan and Integrated Master Schedule are descriptions of the Program Events (measures of maturity), Accomplishments (work that must accomplished to move the product to a defined maturity), and Criteria (the measures of completion for the Work Packages that perform the work).

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The management of projects involves many moving parts. Here's an overview of those parts and their connections.

These involve:

Risk - management of risk is how "adults" manage projects.

Cost - the cost spreads for each "lump of work" defines how resources are allocated, how these costs consumed, and how these costs must be funded by the project's sponsor.

Statement of Work - this is where the project starts. The SOW states what DONE looks like in terms meaningful to the buyer.

Technical Performance Measure - measures of effectiveness and measures of performance for the deliverables.

Work Breakdown Structure - a hierarchical decomposition of a product and the process that build that product.

IMP/IMS - the Integrated Master Plan and Integrated Master Schedule are descriptions of the Program Events (measures of maturity), Accomplishments (work that must accomplished to move the product to a defined maturity), and Criteria (the measures of completion for the Work Packages that perform the work).